Skittles Chromatography

Aim: To separate the colours using chromatography

Materials:

• Petrie Dish
• Skittles
• Water 

Steps:

1. Put the Skittles in a circle spread around the petrie dish
2. Add water to the dish
3. watch the colours spread
4. take photos

when the skittles lost its colour it spread out and then it did not mix with the other colours it stopped losing its colour, we should have waited for the skittles to 

lose their colour more before we touched it

Chromatography experiment

Aim: To separate the colours using chromatography

Materials:

• Cup
• Felt
• Paper
• Water 

Steps:

1. put three dots of felt on a paper and a black line under 
2. Put water in a cup
3. Watch the colours rise in the cup
4. take photos for your blog

Reflection: we should have added more colours or made it
bolder and lower to the water and waited for the colour to rise.